How to Use to the gills in a Sentence

to the gills

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• William Shakespeare was a fount of dramatic innovation, his plays stuffed to the gills with memorable characters and scenarios.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 July 2026
• As fans of the series know well by now, every episode of Outer Banks is packed to the gills with twists, turns, motorcycle chases, police standoffs, knife fights, high-stakes heists, and more.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 July 2026
• There's no better mainstream gaming desktop than the Alienware Area-51, a flagship battlestation that's loaded to the gills with the latest and greatest silicon.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
• Be prepared to be led into temptation at every corner because this tiny neighborhood is packed to the gills with luxury shopping from Bottega Veneta to Prada.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2026
• That Bane, ripped to the gills thanks to his strength-enhancing pseudo-steroid Venom, then had to fight a new Batman — one whose tactics were so brutal that the old Batman returned to take back his mantle — wasn’t an outlier.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026